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This article was co-authored by Dr. Nicole Barile, NTP, and wikiHow staff writer Ali Garbacz, B.Sc. dr. Nicole Lippman-Barile is a licensed clinical psychologist and nutritional therapist (NTP) practicing in New York City. As a psychologist, she specializes in the treatment of anxiety and mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and related compulsive disorders. As a nutritional therapist, Dr. Lippman-Barile specializes in the treatment of blood sugar dysregulation, digestive health, and food-related mood disorders. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from Hofstra University and is certified as a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner by the Nutritional Therapy Association.
Whenever you can’t live up to other people’s expectations or achieve goals you’ve set for yourself, it can be easy to tell yourself you’ve failed. But the truth is that everyone makes mistakes, and failure is what ultimately helps us learn and grow. If you’ve been feeling bitter recently, read on to find out what could be causing these feelings of failure and what you can do to overcome them.
- Thinking that you are a failure may be due to unrealistic expectations you have of yourself, a recent rejection you have faced, or a tendency to compare yourself to others.
- To overcome feelings of failure, reframe mistakes as learning opportunities and talk to yourself with kindness and compassion.
- Failure is a very subjective concept and each person can feel it differently.
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